God was removed from our
schools in the early 60s, and now we have a generation of academics and
scientists who think it is acceptable to "play God."

The results of that political
action 40 years ago are frighteningly staring us in the face ready to not only
alter our social beliefs, but also change who we are. For the first time we
are on the brink ofchanging what defines
a human being.

God created us, and He gave
us a great opportunity. He has shared his power of creation, which He has
commanded us to use in a moral and righteous manner only within the bounds of
marriage.

God has also given us our
free agency to make our own choices, but He has also given us guidance to
shape the way we make those choices. We can follow His guidance and be
blessed, or we can choose to do things our own way and pay the consequences.

We not only have the power
and ability to create life, we can also take it. When we make that choice we
are violating one of God's most basic laws. He will not stop us from making
such a wrong choice, because he has given us our freedom and will not force us
to be righteous. Insteadhe teaches us
correct principles and allows us to govern ourselves.

God is the author, the
creator, the engineer of humanity. We are his creation, but when we abandon
God and then try to take on His role we risk destruction.

The current issue of World
Watchhttp://www.worldwatch.org/mag/magazine points out the very real
likelihood that humangenetic engineering
could be the next major battleground for the global conservation movement,
surpassing the past struggles to protect ecosystems and human societies from
the unpredicted consequences of new technologies.

"This fight over
high-risk applications of human genetic engineering is a struggle over who
will decide what it means to be human," warns World Watch.

There are some countries with
bans on reproductive cloning, and the U.N. may soon have a treaty designed to
ban it from the earth. Unfortunately the same sense of urgency is not present
whendealing with the question of genetic
engineering, specifically "inheritable genetic modification."Experimentation with human genetic technology
with the argument that it will be beneficial to society in the long term will
most likely result in the death of babies who are the unsuccessful results of
trial and error attempts to play God. The excuse that the science must be
developed to cure this or that horrible disease does not wash when we
recognize the real underlying reason is the potential for profit.

Revenues in the biotechnology
industry have grown from $5 billion in 1989 to over $30 billion. World
Watch points out that in 1991 there were 4,000 patents filed for human DNA
sequences to over 500,000 in 1998.

"The
victim of a failed experiment will not be an ecosystem, but a human child
whose parents, seeking to give her greater intelligence, will saddle her with
a greater propensity for cancer, or prolonged debility in old age, or some
other completely unanticipated side effect that may emerge only after the
experimenters have passed from the scene," said political scientist
Francis Fukuyama writing in World Watch.

Hitler was on a quest to play
God and create perfect human specimens. A super-human race superior to all
other people on the earth. He used his quest as justification for forced
sterilization of large populations, and the extermination of others.

We are on extremely dangerous
ground, and given the fact that many godless scientists are the ones
conducting these experiments we must question the motivations and purpose of
such pursuits. The possibilities are endless, and most could be used for evil
purposes.

"It is this potential
for genocide based on genetic differences, which I have termed 'genetic
genocide,' that makes species-altering genetic engineering a potential weapon
of mass destruction, and makes the unaccountable genetic engineer a potential
bioterrorist," writes George J. Annas,chairman
of the Department of Health, Law, Bioethics and Human Rights at Boston
University School of Public Health, in World Watch.

God has shared with us His
power to create and to take life. We will be accountable in this life and the
next for the way we use those powers.